Dan Schulman Quotes

Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.

I believe our philosophy of conscious capitalism will eventually be widely adopted primarily because it is a better way to do business, and it creates more total value in the world for all of its stakeholders.

There is good business doing good.

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.

If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.

I've been very inspired by Virgin's model of business as a force for good.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community.

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

The aim of a business is not simply profit, but to form a particular group at the service of the whole of society.

Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?

You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well. It's a false choice, today more than ever.

As business leaders, we should not choose between profit or good; rather, we must choose to profit from good. And that requires connecting what we do with a purpose beyond profit - a reason to exist that meets our shared sense of 'doing good.'

I see myself as a conscious capitalist.

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

I have always believed that business should be a force for good.

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.

The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.

What is good for society is also good for business.

Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy.

Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.

In terms of companies, they must stand for something bigger. They must be dedicated to something larger than financial results. I reject the Milton Friedman belief that a company's sole responsibility is to the shareholders.

Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.